HTTP::Tinyish(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation HTTP::Tinyish(3)

# [NAME](#NAME)

HTTP::Tinyish - HTTP::Tiny compatible HTTP client wrappers

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

```
  my $http = HTTP::Tinyish->new(agent => "Mozilla/4.0");
  my $res = $http->get("http://www.cpan.org/");
  warn $res->{status};
  $http->post("http://example.com/post", {
      headers => { "Content-Type" => "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" },
      content => "foo=bar&baz=quux",
  });
  $http->mirror("http://www.cpan.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz", "./02packages.details.txt.gz");
```

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

HTTP::Tinyish is a wrapper module for HTTP client modules LWP, HTTP::Tiny and HTTP client software "curl" and "wget".

It provides an API compatible to HTTP::Tiny, and the implementation has been extracted out of App::cpanminus. This module can be useful in a restrictive environment where you need to be able to download CPAN modules without an HTTPS support in built-in HTTP library.

# [BACKEND SELECTION](#BACKEND_SELECTION)

Backends are searched in the order of: LWP, HTTP::Tiny, "curl" and "wget". HTTP::Tinyish will auto-detect if the backend also supports HTTPS, and use the appropriate backend based on the given URL to the request methods.

For example, if you only have HTTP::Tiny but without SSL related modules, it is possible that:

```
  my $http = HTTP::Tinyish->new;
  $http->get("http://example.com");  # uses HTTP::Tiny
  $http->get("https://example.com"); # uses curl
```

# [COMPATIBILITIES](#COMPATIBILITIES)

All request related methods such as "get", "post", "put", "delete", "request", "patch" and "mirror" are supported.

## [LWP](#LWP)

- LWP backend requires LWP 5.802 or over to be functional, and LWP::Protocol::https to send HTTPS requests.
- "mirror" method doesn't consider third options hash into account (i.e. you can't override the HTTP headers).
- proxy is automatically detected from environment variables.
- "timeout", "max\_redirect", "agent", "default\_headers" and "verify\_SSL" are translated.

## [HTTP::Tiny](#HTTP::Tiny)

Because the actual HTTP::Tiny backend is used, all APIs are supported.

## [Curl](#Curl)

- This module has been tested with curl 7.22 and later.
- HTTPS support is automatically detected by running "curl --version" and see its protocol output.
- "timeout", "max\_redirect", "agent", "default\_headers" and "verify\_SSL" are supported.

## [Wget](#Wget)

- This module requires Wget 1.12 and later.
- Wget prior to 1.15 doesn't support sending custom HTTP methods, so if you use "$http->put" for example, you'll get an internal error response (599).
- HTTPS support is automatically detected.
- mirror() method doesn't send "If-Modified-Since" header to the server, which will result in full-download every time because "wget" doesn't support "--timestamping" combined with "-O" option.
- "timeout", "max\_redirect", "agent", "default\_headers" and "verify\_SSL" are supported.

# [SIMILAR MODULES](#SIMILAR_MODULES)

- File::Fetch - is core since 5.10. Has support for non-HTTP protocols such as ftp and git. Does not support HTTPS or basic authentication as of this writing.
- Plient - provides more complete runtime API, but seems only compatible on Unix environments. Does not support **mirror()** method.

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

# [COPYRIGHT](#COPYRIGHT)

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, 2015-

# [LICENSE](#LICENSE)

This module is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.

2026-09-06 perl v5.44.0

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Document: HTTP::Tinyish(3pm) from perl-http-tinyish 0.20-r5 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/miyagawa/HTTP-Tinyish.git